audio drama
Spoken theatrical production
Audio drama is fiction performed entirely through sound—dialogue, music, and sound effects—without visual elements.
The form flourished in radio's golden age and persists today as podcasts and streaming content.
Unlike audiobooks, audio dramas feature full casts and production: I've been listening to an audio drama about space exploration.
- narrationVerbal account delivery
- podcastingCreating serialized audio content
- scriptwritingComposing film or TV text
- BBC RadioUK public audio broadcaster
- cliffhangersUnresolved dramatic conclusions
Orson Welles · sound design · sound effects · monologue · cold open · radio broadcast · foley · ear candy · immersive storytelling · character arcs · dialogue · audiobooks · voice acting · voice talent · full cast · actors · music composition · script
- audiosound, headphones, volume control, sound recording, noise
- Audiobooksaudiobook, narrator, chapter, narration, playback speed
- digital mediawebsites, films, ebook, content creation, movies
- contemporary storytellingpodcasts, streaming series, graphic novels, video games, fan fiction
- productionsfilm, movie, show, TV show, series
- adaptationsfilm adaptation, film adaptations, movie adaptation, TV adaptation, TV adaptations
audio dramasilent film
Soundless motion picture
visual media · film · television drama · video · movie
audio dramastage play
Live theatrical work
theatrical performance · book · live reading · interactive theater · immersive theater
audio dramadocumentary
Factual film about reality
podcast interview · news broadcast · radio journalism · radio news · audiobook